Deutsche Mark
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6.5
- noun
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marco alemán
- The strength of the German economy and the Deutsche Mark will give Berlin increasing influence on the deliberations of the European Community.
What's more, the statutory role of the Bundesbank was to keep the Deutsche mark sound.
- What's more, the statutory role of the Bundesbank was to keep the Deutsche mark sound.
- And now the pound and the dollar and the Deutsche mark and the yen were all moving around independently.
- But like, people turned to Hitler when the Deutsche marks were being burned in the streets for fire, right?
- IBM at the time had large amounts of Swiss franc and German Deutsche Mark debt.
Examples
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Travelers exchanged their dollars for Deutsche Marks when they visited Germany before the euro.
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The global role of the dollar has fallen steadily as the Deutsche Mark and the yen become more widely used in international finance.
Academic text (1990) -
Britain and Italy chose to drop out and devalue their money by 10 percent against the Deutsche Mark.
Academic text (1992) -
And now the pound and the dollar and the Deutsche mark and the yen were all moving around independently.
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The Deutsche Mark, for example, was a parallel currency in East Germany before the currency unification in July 1990.
Academic text (1990) -
The Deutsche Mark became a reserve currency because foreigners wanted to hold it, not because German authorities actively sought that outcome.
Academic text (2012) -
Seventy percent of Germans said they refused to trade off their national crown jewel, the strong Deutsche Mark, for a dubious new unit.
Academic text (1992) -
The Deutsche Mark remains the symbol and instrument of Germany's economic stability, and the unarticulated incantation could be "In the Deutsche Mark we trust."
Academic text (1993) -
In Germany, the Deutsche Mark was the primary currency until the euro was introduced in 2002.
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Many people in Germany remember the Deutsche Mark fondly as a symbol of their nation's economic strength.
Synonyms
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8.6
The old money used in Germany before the euro
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4.0
Money used in Germany before the euro arrived in 2002
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6.5
Money used in Germany before it adopted the euro in 2002
Surface Forms
Morphology
Deutsche + mark
The phrase is directly compositional: 'Deutsche' = German and 'mark' = a currency unit, so a learner who knows both parts can infer it refers to the German currency (in this case the former unit). This country-adjective + currency-noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and therefore readily transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Deutsche Mark is simply Deutsche, meaning German, plus Mark, an old word for a unit of money or a weight of silver used long ago. That's why Deutsche Mark was the name for Germany's 'money' until the euro.